Monday, August 15, 2022

First Loves

 Hi everyone.  Can you believe we are in the middle of the month already?

I'm leaving this afternoon for a couple of days away with my walking friend, but I wanted to share another page for Chris' When We  Were Young challenge  at Art Journal Journey before I leave. 

I call this page First Love. I think it's great how Elizabeth had the same idea for a page and posted it this past  Saturday. 


Back when I was cleaning my bin of stencils out, I came across one from Dylusions that I had never opened and forgot I even had. OK, I guess I have way too many stencils, but I took this one out and set it aside as it was perfect for Chris' topic this month. 

Instead of using the stencil, for this page I used the masks from when you popped the images out of the stencil. I put them down on my white watercolor paper and used some various shades of purple paint around them. Once the paint dried I used a Stabilo pencil to smooth out the edges of the masked children, and then I also used a wet brush to give me that fuzzy black edge.

I masked over the children again to use a couple of stamps and some purple and black ink to add some details to my background. The love word is also a stamp which I cut out and then added to my page. I added the black border to it with a Sharpie. 

I used the same stencil set to copy the red balloon onto some white paper. I painted the balloon, cut it out and added it to my page. The last thing I did was use a few of those little foam shaker card elements on each of the children.

I remember when I was young I had my first crush on the boy from across the street named Timmy. Sadly, he moved away very shortly after I developed my crush, and who knows what ever happened to him. Of course I had lots of crushes after him,  that is until I met my husband when I was in college. He's been my long term crush ever since. Grin.

Thanks for visiting my blog.


15 comments:

CJ Kennedy said...

Cute page. Oh, those crushes. Seems there was a new one every week. Enjoy your getaway

Valerie-Jael said...

Gorgeous page, love the colours, and glad that your husband is still your long time crush, that's fabulous! Enjoy your days away, hugs, Valerie

Beatrice P. Boyd said...

Hope you have a fun getaway, Erika, and share your adventure in a future post.

Beatrice P. Boyd said...

Hi again, Erika, to answer you questions about our upcoming NH anniversary road trip, we are going to Chesterfield, which is only an hour or so drive from Nashua.

Angie's Recipes said...

Such a sweet and fun page, Erika! Maybe this Timmy is reading your blog too :-))

craftytrog said...

Great page Erika, I love the colours and those stencilled children. The red balloon is a wonderful pop of colour!

R's Rue said...

Enjoy your getaway.

kathyinozarks said...

Great page Erika, I love how you designed it and the colors too. enjoy your getaway, hoping you have perfect weather too-Happy new week hugs Kathy

Aimeslee Winans said...

Oh, the crushes of youth, great page. I have some Dina Wakley and Coffee Break masks of people but were never comfortable using them. Now that I have the good stencil spray I use all the time, I may one day pull them back out. Have a great time on your trip! xoxo

Iris Flavia said...

Great page and what a bitter-sweet story - especially sweet on the outcome - enjoy your time off - hope you get the weather you want! (Here it´s another stinkin´ hot day, yipeeeee). Hugs!

pearshapedcrafting said...

I love this Erika - fabulous use of colour with the white! Oh! those schoolgirl crushes!! Thanks so much for linking to my AJJ theme. I hope you enjoyed your break, Hugs, Chrisx

Anne (cornucopia) said...

This is lovely. I hope your weather has cooled off a little.

David M. Gascoigne, said...

We should never stop having crushes! It adds a spark to life doesn't it? Hugs - David

Sharon Fritchman said...

Awwwww! What a beautiful page! I'm so happy you still have your crush from college!!

Neet said...

"Young love, first love, filled with sweet emotion" - have I got that right, I am sure that is a line from a song from way way back. Yes, most of us will never forget our first love.
Love the colours you have used on your page. I thought it was the same stencil I have but I am not too sure now
Hugs, Neet xx